This comment by goblyn on the Shangri-La Diet forums made me laugh:
When you’re on Atkins it gets harder when you start wanting to sell your first born for a piece of bread. On Weight Watchers you’d kill for a pizza. On South Beach you’d sleep with Donald Trump for an order of buffalo wings. On the cabbage soup diet, you’d willingly chop off your hands if you could eat something…anything…other than cabbage soup. On SLD it gets harder when you are suddenly only losing 1 lb a week rather than 4.
So well written! The comment continues, in very gratifying way:
It’s harder when you effortlessly eat 1400 calories a day and don’t feel deprived. It’s harder when you have to buy a whole new wardrobe. It’s harder when you’re out with friends and they all think you’re anorexic because you get stuffed from the bread they served before the meal… But there’s rarely a moment when it’s actually HARD. SLD is easy. Yes the weight loss slows down, yes the AS [appetite suppression] gets less noticeable, but at no point does it stop working. You won’t suddenly find your weight skyrocketing from eating a piece of celery.